Job summary
- Main area
- Neuropsychology
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- 11 months (Fixed term maternity cover)
- Hours
- Part time
- Job share
- Job ref
- 434-SCS7590291
- Employer
- Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Amersham Hospital
- Town
- Amersham
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/12/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist in Neuropsychology - Maternity cover
Band 8a
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Job overview
We are seeking a clinical psychologist who is keen to work with us for 11 months to cover maternity leave. The post is based in the 17 bedded in-patient Buckinghamshire Neurorehabilitation Unit in Amersham Hospital. You will be joining a supportive and friendly MDT (which includes a 0.5 consultant clinical psychologist and a 1.0 assistant psychologist) that has patient care at the heart of everything we do. Your work will be 1:1 work with patients and providing support and training to your non-psychologist colleagues.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide psychological assessment and interventions to the 17 patients on the unit. This includes psychological assessment and management of mood, neuropsychological cognitive screening and assessment and cognitive rehabilitation. As part of a collaborative MDT, the applicant will integrate into a wider team and work jointly with a number of other health professionals. Alongside this there will be elements of monitoring and developing different processes within the team, for example goal planning.
This role would suit an applicant who has good experience of working with patients with neurological conditions, and who is interested in developing skills in working with patients with complex cognitive and psychological needs within an inpatient setting.
The applicant will be confident in working with patients with a range of difficulties, physical, cognitive and communication, and be able to demonstrate ability in considering their needs and implementing necessary treatment plans. They will be comfortable in working within an MDT, able to voice psychological opinions and viewpoints while listening to others and working together to achieve the best outcome for the patient.
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What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
- As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
- We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
- We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Why work for us?
- We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
- As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
- Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
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- Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
- Our care values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.
If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.
If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us on [email protected] quoting the vacancy reference number.
Person specification
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Supervised experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the life span and presenting with a wide range of clinical severity across a wide range of care settings: including outpatient, inpatient, community, and residential care settings.
- Assessed experience of working clinically within a neuropsychology setting.
- Experience of working within an inter or multidisciplinary team
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching, training and-or professional and clinical supervision
EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS), including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
Desirable criteria
- Formal post-doctoral training in Clinical Neuropsychology to qualify for Full Practitioner Membership of the British Psychology Society’s Division of Clinical Neuropsychology (or equivalent training/experience).
SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological and neuropsychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration and complex motor skills coordination
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology
- Skills in designing and implementing cognitive rehabilitation programmes.
- Skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
Desirable criteria
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Post-doctoral level knowledge of neuropsychological themes, such as neuro-anatomy and neurological disorders
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to patients with neurological disorders and mental health difficulties
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Beth Edwards
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01494 734102
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